Thom Hartmann: Supreme Court says NO! to Corporate Personhood in MT

[thomhartmann]

David Cobb, Move to Amend joins Thom Hartmann. Two years ago this month - the Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that corporations are people and money is speech. There's been one national election since then - and corporations spent massive amounts of money - and Republicans won in a landslide. But now one state is pushing back against the idea that corporations should be able to buy politicians ahead of elections. And that's Montana. Last Friday - the Supreme Court of Montana took on the U.S. Supreme Court - and ruled that Citizens United only applies to federal elections - and thus Montana can do whatever it wants in its state elections - and put whatever restrictions they want on corporate electioneering. So the Montana Supreme Court kept intact a 100-year old election law that prevents direct spending by corporations in state elections. The judges argued that corporate election spending, “represents a threat to the 'political marketplace."' So what does this latest victory in the fight against corporate peronshood mean? Could this be a stepping stone to overturing Citizens United altogether?

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[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Superb, I love this trend. The cities of New York (today!) and Los Angeles

have also signed similar statements.

[esau]

2. Bam you wanna know what commercials I see when I watch the bowl games?

Jack squat that's what! I'm from Montana and the dunce party and the free marketeers aren't on my dung tube. Wouldn't matter anyway cause I watch everything else except a little football on the puter.

[Mosaic]

3. Such important news

And all state corporate television talks about are a bunch of clowns running for president, not counting Obama.

[Myrina]

4. Excellent - and the GOP oughta love it --

with their insistence that States' Rights trump Federal Regulations and all that.

Oh, wait ...

[Jack Rabbit]

5. No, no, no, no

The Supreme Court will rule that artificial persons have more rights than anything organic, including flesh and blood people, and have an inherit right to pollute the environment and heat the oceans and to lie about it.

[freshwest]

6. +1.